The Ants of Africa
Genus Cyphoidris
Cyphoidris parissa Bolton

Cyphoidris parissa Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Liberia (Bolton, 1981b: 258, not illustrated, worker); collected at Gibi, by W.M. Mann, Smithsonian Firestone Expedition, 1940. Holotype worker only known .

Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 4.3 mm; basal half of first gastral tergite densely and strongly shagreened. Dorsal alitrunk and pedicel without hairs but with a fairly dense coat of short appressed pubescence. Colour dark reddish brown, gaster darker than the head .

{Cyphoidris parissa}The photomontage of the holotype is collated from The Smithsonian Institute images at http://ripley.si.edu/ent/nmnhtypedb/public/specimeninfopage.cfm?publicconsumption=1&typespecimenID=767
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